It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

People want to feel hopeful.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I love driving my car on any highway.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.